Facebook will pay $ 550 million fine

Facebook has agreed to pay $550 million to settle a class action lawsuit involving...use of face recognition technology.

The trial has been ongoing since 2015and based on a class action lawsuit from Facebook users from Illinois. Users claim that the TagSuggestion function violates the state law on biometric confidentiality because it does not request permission to collect face recognition data and does not inform users about how long the biometric data will be stored.

This is not the first time Facebook has violatedconfidential consumer rights. The Federal Trade Commission has already fined the company for privacy violations after the release of the Cambridge Analytica study. In 2019, the social network paid another fine of $5 billion for the collection and inappropriate storage of confidential user data.

Recently, Facebook also faced fines in Italy and the UK for violating privacy policies.